Anyone who had any hope for this team to break out and have an average offense (or even slightly below) this year must come to grips that it’s just not gonna happen. With a team OPS of 0.686, the lowest in the NL, only 3 AL teams, the CWS (0.680) Detroit (0.678) and Oakland (0.665) are lower. Their team OPS+ is 87. Only 2 teams have made the playoffs with an OPS+ that low in the past 50 YEARS, excluding 2020.
As far as bringing up Hiura from Nashville, the FO must have lost all confidence in him after 2022 to not even to give this guy a chance with as BAD an offense that this team has. They must be so stubborn in their opinion they will never change it.